Parkinson S Quotes

When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. ~ Michael J. Fox

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done. ~ Joyce Rachelle

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%. ~ Richie Norton

Fear is a bastard. Fear is an attention whore. I want to ask fear if it has mommy issues, because that's the only reason I can think why it needs attention so bad. I want fear to get Parkinson's. Then maybe fear will know how it feels to be on the run from something it doesn't understand. ~ Anne Clendening

A sermon expands to fill the time allotted to complete. it ~ Peggy Noonan

I needed a time machine. I needed to run around the past and gather up all the old, unbroken parts of me and try to Frankenstein myself back together again. My healthy body, my unjaded sixteen-year-old heart, my baby brain. I may not make such a pretty monster, but at least I'd feel like myself again. ~ Anne Clendening

I have referred to it as a gift--something for which others with this affliction have taken me to task. I was only speaking from my own experience, of course, but I stand partially corrected: if it is a gift, it's the gift that just keeps on taking.

Coping with relentless assault and the accumulating damage is not easy. Nobody would ever choose to have this visited upon them. Still, this unexpected crisis forced a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality--or embark upon a journey. Whatever it was--courage? acceptance? wisdom?--that finally allowed me to go down the second road (after spending a few disastrous years on the first) was unquestionably a gift--and absent this neurophysiological catastrophe, I would never have opened it, or been so profoundly enriched. That's why I consider myself a lucky man. ~ Michael J. Fox

Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis - all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation. ~ David Perlmutter

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. ~ Michael J. Fox

Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category. ~ Jamie Cullum

Anything can happen at Pipeline; it's one of those waves where the most amazing wave can come through in one minute, and then nothing can happen for an hour. ~ Joel Parkinson

It is the busiest man who has time to spare. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's. ~ Mort Kondracke

You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can. ~ Joel Parkinson

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified. ~ David Perlmutter

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. ~ Michael J. Fox

It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another. ~ Joel Parkinson

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity. ~ Michael Parkinson

It is only when we let go of knowing what we think we know that new knowing can enter our lives. ~ Maria Parkinson

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time. ~ Katherine Parkinson

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. ~ Michael J. Fox

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential. ~ Jim Doyle

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune. ~ Frances Parkinson Keyes

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting. ~ Michael Parkinson

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

In Parkinson disease, double vision arises from the inability of the eyes to keep pace with each other. ~ Sotirios Parashos

The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things. ~ Jilly Cooper

For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings. ~ Joel Parkinson

It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave. ~ Joel Parkinson

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble. ~ Frances Parkinson Keyes

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better. ~ Michael Parkinson

I know that you are preparing to fight." There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutched each other, looking around in terror for the source of the sound. "Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood."

There was silence in the Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls.

"Give me Harry Potter," said Voldemort's voice, "and they shall not be harmed.Give me Harry Potter and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter and you will be rewarded.

"You have until midnight."

The silence swallowed them all again. Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found Harry, to hold him forever in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Then a figure rose from the Slytherin table and he recognized Pansy Parkinson as she raised a shaking arm and screamed, "But he's there! Potter's there. Someone grab him!"

Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, but the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking toward Pansy instead, and Harry, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sl ~ J.K. Rowling

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. ~ Michael J. Fox

As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves. ~ Joel Parkinson

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout. ~ Joel Parkinson

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better. ~ Norman Parkinson

I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can't sing a note. ~ Linda Ronstadt

The smaller the function, the greater the management. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. ~ Michael J. Fox

They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part. ~ Siobhan Parkinson

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. ~ Michael J. Fox

Wherever the truth lies, in order to eliminate flicker, the rotating shutter within the projector has to allow each image to be flashed upon the screen twice. Thus, whenever we watch a movie, we spend half the time gazing at an optical illusion and the other half sitting in the dark in front of a blank screen. ~ David Parkinson

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. ~ Muhammad Ali

The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism. ~ Helen Mirren